Gatsby
Michaelis shoots Gatsby in the bedroom of his mansion
False
Gatsby wants Daisy to admit her part in Myrtle’s death
False
Nick invents a false, romantic story about his background
False
West Egg is new money and East Egg is old money
True
Tom has been faithful to Daisy up until he meets Myrtle Wilson
False
“It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body.”
Tom Buchanan
“There was excitement in her voice.”
Daisy
“…she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.”
Myrtle Wilson
“No, he’s a gambler. He’s the man who fixed the World Series in 1919.”
Meyer Wolfsheim
“…a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster…”
Henry Gatz
“Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.”
Tom Buchanan
"I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed—that voice was a deathless song.”
Daisy
“Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering.”
Myrtle Wilson
“A large photograph of an elderly man in yachting costume attracted me, hung on the wall over his desk.”
Dan Cody
“She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.”
Jordan Baker
“…I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
Nick
“Her voice is full of money.”
Gatsby
“You always look so cool.”
Daisy
“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!?”
Gatsby
“By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me.”
Tom